Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
In the months leading up to the 2016 election I had been predicting a Trump win based on a particular theory which I believe still holds true today – namely the theory that the global banking elites in power were allowing so-called “populist” movements in the US and Europe to gain political traction near the very end of the decade long “Everything Bubble”. Once populist groups were entrenched and feeling overconfident, the cabal would then tighten liquidity into existing economic weakness and crash the system on their heads. Populists would get the blame for an economic disaster that the central banks had engineered many years in advance.
Once enough suffering had been dealt to the populace, globalists and extreme leftists would arrive on the scene to offer anti-populism as a solution; meaning the centralization and socialization of everything on a scale never before witnessed except perhaps in the darkest days of the Bolshevik Revolution.
This theory allowed me to predict the success of the Brexit vote in the UK, Trump’s entry into the White House, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes and balance sheet cuts into economic weakness, and now it is looking more and more like my March prediction of a “No Deal” Brexit will turn out to be correct with Boris Johnson rising to the position of Prime Minister. So, I continue to stand by it.
By extension, for a couple of years I have been examining the strange correlations between the background and policies of Donald Trump and the background and policies of Herbert Hoover; the Republican president that oversaw the great crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression.
One of Hoover’s first actions as president in response to the fiscal tensions of 1929 was to support increased tax cuts, primarily for corporations (this was then followed in 1932 by extensive tax increases in the midst of the depression). Then, he instituted tariffs through the Smoot-Hawley Act. His hyperfocus on massive infrastructure spending resulted in U.S. debt expansion and did nothing to dig the U.S. out of its unemployment abyss. In fact, infrastructure projects like the Hoover Dam, which were launched in 1931, were not paid of for over 50 years. Hoover ended up as a single-term Republican president who paved the way socially for Franklin D. Roosevelt, an thinly disguised communist and perhaps the most destructive president in American history.
It was Hoover and his “protectionist” policies that were blamed for the Great Depression (along with the gold standard), yet it was the Federal Reserve which created the entire calamity. The Fed’s policy easing in the 1920s led to the extensive bubble in banking and stock markets, and the Fed’s rate hikes and liquidity tightening in the early 1930’s exacerbated the crash and extended the depression for many years. Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke even openly admitted that the Fed was responsible for the Great Depression in a speech made in honor of Milton Friedman in 2002. He stated:
“In short, according to Friedman and Schwartz, because of institutional changes and misguided doctrines, the banking panics of the Great Contraction were much more severe and widespread than would have normally occurred during a downturn.
Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.”
Of course, the Fed IS doing it again. For over a year and a half the Fed has been instituting liquidity tightening into economic weakness at the onset of the crash of one of the biggest financial bubbles in the history of the economic world. It is a bubble they created with the intention of deliberately imploding it, and the process has already begun. As I have noted numerous times, the crash in fundamentals is well underway, with almost every sector of the economy in retreat except the three indicators that the Fed and the government statistically manipulate: GDP, employment, and stock markets.
Trump is not innocent in this scheme, either. After months of rightly criticizing the Fed during his campaign for inflating a fake economy and stock market, Trump pulled a 180 on his supporters after becoming president and has now attached his administration so completely to the Everything Bubble (and stock markets in particular) that it is assured he and his conservative followers will take the blame as it collapses.
I am also not the only person noting the comparison between Trump and Herbert Hoover. Trump’s similarities to Hoover are being mentioned endlessly the past year in the mainstream and leftist media with a particular focus on the trade war. Trump’s trade conflicts are providing the perfect cover for the banking elites to pull the plug on the economy, while escaping any blame. The narrative is being set up for a crash and the plan is to make populists, nationalists and sovereignty activists the scapegoats.
So, the question is, if Trump is playing the role of a modern day Hoover, and the current crash in fundamentals is set to become another long term depression, then who is the next Franklin D. Roosevelt; the communistic president or political group to push America even further into the socialist fold?
It is hard to say at this time if Trump, like Hoover, will be a one term president. If the economic crash continues on its current pace then it is unlikely that Trump could secure a second term in 2020. That said, the advent of a shooting war with a country like Iran could conceivably change the dynamic even in the midst of a financial crisis.
Whether in 2020, or 2024, I believe Trump and the populist revolt will be replaced with a socialist fervor beyond anything we saw during the Obama Administration. Just as conservatives surprised the world in 2016, I believe the hard left will surprise the world in the next 5 years.
I find it rather suspicious the amount of media attention hard leftist politicians with little experience are receiving in the mainstream media these days. I am also suspicious of the amount of attention Donald Trump is paying to these same politicians in what appears to be another scripted wrestling match for the benefit of the public. Yes, I’m talking about the “four horsewomen of the Apocalypse” and the ongoing soap opera dramatics between them and Trump that continually keep these junior upstarts in the spotlight despite all reason.
It is perhaps very hard to notice right now in the middle of Trump fever, but I see the beginnings, the root or the seed, of a massive narrative change in the elevation of political extremists like Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, also known as “the squad”. Yes, they seem to be universally hated in Washington right now, and the abject failure of AOC’s “Green New Deal” makes it appear as if there is little support for their ideas, but again, look at how much attention these nobodies are accumulating…
I am reminded of the early hints of Barack Obama’s run for president even though he had little political experience compared to his opponents, most of it as a state senator. People running against him during his early career on the Democratic and Republican sides seemed to keep dropping out of the races due to sexual scandals. Then, Obama received overt attention from the mainstream media and even The Daily Show before he ever announced his run for the Oval Office. The build up was obvious for analysts that recognized the signals. Obama had been anointed by the elites.
AOC and “the squad” are being marketed in a very similar manner to Obama; as hopeful, young, vibrant, full of energy and ready to take on the world. The kind of cheesy, heart-clutching Disney movie sales pitch that Democrats and leftists go crazy for.
Today, comparatively “moderate” Democratic presidential candidates for 2020 such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are falling all over themselves to promote “the squad” and get their political approval and support. It is clear that hard line leftists are dictating the conversation on America’s future governmental path, and that path is one of extreme centralization, globalization, and bureaucratic tyranny in the name of fraudulent environmental panic.
Interestingly, Elizabeth Warren is garnering attention lately with her warnings of coming economic calamity under the Trump Administration. Her observations are very obvious to most of us and not worth noting here; it’s nice that Warren is mentioning the prospect of economic danger in the mainstream, but she’s years late to the party. I would point out, though, that this marks a turning point in the 2020 election conversation. Suddenly, the Democrats are seriously talking about the potential for a financial crash – which says to me that the crash that is already happening today is about to accelerate even more in the next year. The globalists are setting the stage for the Democrats to say “See, we told you so”, as an election year approaches.
At this point, given her recent statements, I will have to predict that Elizabeth Warren is the intended Democratic candidate for the 2020 election.
It is important to remember that public sentiment is fickle, and can change so swiftly it boggles the mind. With the advent of a major economic disaster and maybe even a kinetic war that the US cannot sustain or win in the long run, the predictions of globalists and leftists that populist movements are a “crisis waiting to happen” would be fulfilled. Trump has no real control over the economy, of course, and the Fed determines when and how a financial bubble will pop; but that will not stop the majority from laying the blame on the feet of Trump and his political base. The introduction of hardcore socialism as the preeminent American ideal would be a much easier sell at that point.
In the middle of societal catastrophe, that which we once thought impossible becomes probable. I predict that the “four horsewomen of the Apocalypse” and their ilk are chosen by the globalists to take control of the US in the next decade after Trump and the populists are fully discredited in the eyes of more than half the country and the world. To be certain, there are many of us who will not accept open socialist/communist governance and all the tidings that come with it (including carbon controls and disarmament of the population), and I have no doubt civil war would erupt.
The point is, we should expect this outcome as one the globalists will force. The signs are visible now. The policies of these women, which are utterly insane and bankrupt of logic, are going to become the prevailing ideals of the next political revolution. Count on it.
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That’s all we need is east coast lefties in charge. People who are so stupid they think the government would do a good job at something.
They want you to know voting hasn’t mattered in a very long time.
Kneegrow Prez 2008, 2012
Israel First Jewbagger 2016
Female Genitalia 2020
Proof positive the vote of white male landowners hasn’t mattered in FUCKING AGES AND AGES.
White landowners….nigga please you don’t own a scooter much less a piece of property.
West coast lefties are even dumber.
The left is going to draft Mikey Obummer in feigned desperation.
The bush league jokes currently running are by design to make it appear hopeless unless Mikey mans up and carries the day.
The Wookie/tranny is not to be underestimated. I think this is a very real possibility as the lilliputian Dem candidates have zero charisma and gravitas whilst the tranny Michael is worshipped like a saint and would adeptly play the race card on Trump.
Yes. That was my point. Obama is worshipped and and the present group is a joke.
She has too much baggage. She will not want to talk about what happened to her Law License. I also really believe she did not enjoy being in the White House.
H&R.
She definitely has baggage but look at how well they cover the baggage of Bill, Barry and Hill. Plus, all the barriers to minorities and women in the whitehouse have been broken.
When I recently read the headlines regarding Elizabeth Warren’s prediction of an economic crash, my thoughts pretty much exactly mirrored Brandon’s above. He wrote:
Right now, however, it’s hard to envision Warren winning against Trump. The debates would be like watching a pitbull angrily engage a kitten; or “Macho Man” Randy Savage wrestling with Edith Bunker.
My point is, we’ve seen it all before:
But, as the economic pain increases, the dynamics will continually work against Trump politically; and it’s not hard to imagine the snowflakes unifying around Warren because of her Santa Clausian economic initiatives, her genitals, and the fact she is .ooo1% native american. That’s like the magic hat-trick right there for the Looney Left.
Brandon may be right. We’ll see.
But, no matter who becomes the Democratic presidential candidate, two things are certain: 1.) The economy will be in shambles before November 2020 and 2.) Trump’s 2020 Democratic opponent will mercilessly showcase Trump’s endless bragging on “his” magnificent economy and record stock market.
Candidate Trump was elected by honestly addressing the banker’s “bubbles”. Then, President Trump took ownership of those bubbles.
He must have had his reasons. Pass the
popcornammo.If people are thrown out into the streets en masse, and it’s really on like Donkey Kong, who knows what may happen.
I can tell you this. I predicted PUSSY IN OFFICE at least a year ago.
Just didn’t think it would be this wrinkled CUNT.
I loathe to say it, but the guns and bombs will almost certainly come out in a full-on panic given the monumental mockery and desecration of human dignity that is occurring.
Makes me think of the Balkans, both now and then.
It’s the human dignity factor that tips the scales in both riots and revolutions. Even in revolutions that are engineered, if you look at the French, American, and 1861. All steered and engineered to a degree.
Kneegrow Prez 2008, 2012
Israel First Jewbagger 2016
Female Genitalia 2020
The trifecta of disgrace.
Billionaire – Come with me if you want to fuck.
Prole – Doesn’t it go something like, if you want to live?
Billionaire – Go ahead and take your clothes off, we will start shortly.
Prole – I can hardly wait, is it a young woman?
Billionaire – Would you mind giving me a blow job while we are waiting.
Prole – Uhm, ok, I heard these sex orgies are wild. I could use a BJ myself.
Billionaire – Could you turn around, I have a surprise for you.
Prole – Aaaarrrrrggghhhh!
I don’t agree with much Brandon says.
Reeks of Oath Keepers.
But I do agree with him that a .308AR/SR25 with lots of big bad mags and ammo is the way to go for any number of reasons.
Ha ha, you have never ever touched an AR10 variant or the SR25 version much less defended yourself with one, who are you kidding, what a punk. Do you even know how many mags are in a full combat loadout? Of course, you don’t. Now do your AR10 mags hold 30, 20 or 10 rounds? You have no fucking idea. You are such a poseur.
25 and 50 you little dirtbag
22..
Just saw a video on Zero Hedge of a drone firing napalm at targets. Does it well too.
Scary, especially at night.
Thick forests abovehead and mobility are your friends.
Never want to be out in the open!
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100 yds smoothbore 12ga auto with Brenneke slugs (the first two shots were high intentionally because I figured on 6 or 8 inches of drop-no, not with Brenneke magnums.). That’s not bad for a true 100 yards with a red dot and a target frame that flaps in the breeze. I shoot can cloverleafs with certain rifles.
At 30 to 65 yards that piece of paper has all or most of 15 Flite Control buckshot on it.
Oop’s OK, I am not going to embarrass you further, very uncool of me.
No, a combat loadout of 5.56 or AR15 is 9 mags or 270 rounds. Now, ar10 mags because the cartridge is larger and heavier hold 20 rounds of 7.62×51 aka .308win. Depending on the application some folks use 10 round mags. e.g. a sniper in a prone position as the 20 rd mag would be on the ground….It’s OK if you don’t know this stuff, now you do, please go and practice, every rifleman is going to be needed.
Internet shit-stirring is moderately entertaining but what is coming will not be a game. Time to put petty differences aside and get on with it.
Hammered.
All that proves is you can remember figures or take good notes. A real combat loadout in Nam was as much as you could carry. I knew a Marine who never left on a patrol without 200 extra rounds of M14 to hide halfway out in case they had to shoot their way back.
I don’t know what you and .22 have going on but I’ve been in shootouts here and in Nam and I can tell you that this kind of talk is trash. It’s never the same from day to day. Being shot at from 5 to 20 yards by someone you can’t see leaves you changed forever.
For Iraq and Afgh that is what the 11b’s are carrying if at standard. I am not a military veteran but I have worked closely with various types and have done a lot of training. Vietnam was quite different due to the terrain and my sense is that variation/customization was not unusual. I have the full kit but really just having a rifle and pistol handy with a battle belt is sufficient here in MT….where the threats are more often on 4 legs than 2. That will change here though. I have been harsh on .22 because the anti-Semite thing pisses me off. I am going to dial that back, time to starting building up the morale of the partisan cadre. I hope your PTSD is not too bad, it was extremely difficult for the Vietnam guys.
Hammer.
It only flares up around old hippies and people online who trash us or talk trash about Mi Lai who weren’t even born then. You can read my story if you can call it that here. Just type in My War by Fleabaggs. 4 pages and a picture.
well done.
Just for the record you can get anywhere from 5-50 rounds. Most of the 7.62 AR patterns are using the Magpul 25’s and Magpul has a 50 round drum. Some take M-14 mags or M-14 mags and Magpuls. There are some which take G-3 mags and some using FN FAL mags and then you have to know whether or not they are the inch or the metric.
Unlike the AR-15 which is standardized for the most part, the AR-1o’s are the wild west and while they are beginnings of standardization, you can have a collection of AR-10’s that have almost no parts or mags that will interchange. Caveat Emptor!
Any kind of high power rifle works well especially if you live in Appalachia and you can find a bush to hide behind if you think you’re going need to use it. I think they call that the art of bushwhacking.
Much longer range and better optics on hunting rifles……collapsible stock AR15 for urban combat. Shooting is a perishable skill, everybody needs to get to the range and practice.
Sorry, you’ll have to think smarter than that.
This technology:
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-shotspotter-works-microphones-detecting-gunshots-2017-6
is mobile (i.e. transportable), and compact and in the hands of both military and LEAs now.
That bush you’re hiding behind (and anything in its vicinity) will no longer be there in less than 3 seconds.
Chicago is one of their top customers. Doesn’t appear to have effect on gun crime there. Their murder solve rate is running just under 20% too, so much for the efficacy of technology.
I think you have to want to use it in order for it to work.
While your dollars are still good….buy more ammo .
Brandon is usually a punk one-trick pony (its all a false flag and we are doomed) but this article is right on the money and does not boldly go to the logical conclusion.
What exactly do you think these communist revolutionaries are going to do when/if they gain control of the United States and all of the fearsome surveillance tools and AGWs? They are going to do exactly what Adolph did and pass the US version of the Nuremberg laws aimed not at Jews, Gypsies, Commies and Homos but White Christians……they are going to fucking kill us that’s what they are going to do.
When you on the fence types finally accept that your neighborhood will be cordoned and you will be in the system and likely injected with an rfid chip…….with GPS! “Take the chip to get your rations and access to your neighborhood”…..
The storm is coming.
Exactly right.
I don’t know how old you are; but did you ever think, even 5 or 10 years ago, that what you describe would be anything other than a far-distant fantasy?
Yet, it comes closer into focus every year.
Really, only details and timing are up for grabs. The writing is on the wall.
Not truly important but the chip is probably not really necessary at this point, given advances in certain technology (facial recognition, etc) and the growth of the Panopticon.
Certainly a conspiracy theory worth pondering.
Prediction sages like to tout their past successes, but rarely mention their failures.
If a socialist progressive comes to power, the traditionalists might fade away, but probably not quietly.
If Trumpty Dumpty wins a 2nd term, you’ll have about 3 more years to make plans for your Alamo.
Either way it goes, the road ahead is abundant in potholes. Buckle up, and keep a piece close at hand.
After that all bets are off.
Got a plan?
If not, when would NOW be a good time to start one?
AOC is such an outrageously stupid person I tend to think she’s actually a troll, not a serious commie leftist.
Anyway, there is 0.0000 chance that any of those four will get to a higher office than senator, and even that’s a stretch.
Things that are impossible won’t happen. The country will note for such extreme leftists. The people plotting the destroy the US aren’t stupid, so they know this. The end goal is not a commie US, it’s to knock the US out of global power and relevance to free the space for someone else – presumably China. The last 10-20 years have been setting the stage for a devastating US civil war, and unless we get Napoleon 2.0 the US will be out of the “Great game” for decades to come. This is the end goal. Refocus and realize that US dominance and importance is neither assured nor even likely in the future, and think about the realistic goals and consequences of our massively fucked up current situation.
Persy..
Exactly, and your last point that our dominance is neither assured nor likely is the hardest pill for Americans to swallow.
Genuinely losing dominance would depend on two things: a functioning global exchange system with someone else in the #1 spot, even if it’s a hot-wartime exchange system, and a whole lot of aircraft carriers at the bottom (because nukes aren’t real and so on).
USSA has maybe 60 days worth of front line aircraft, smart weapons, and petroleum in my opinion.
Sell out the Navy and it’s over in a week.
The iron will to use the USSA .mil for real against a foreign enemy or for some kind of shooting gallery domestic situation? Laughable in my opinion.
We’re less than a year away from there being a viable alternative global exchange system. Could be just 1-2 months.
Our aircraft carriers are sitting ducks for missiles that Russia and China have, so they won’t go anywhere close to those nations’ shorelines except as an intentional provocation. Think Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and USS Maine all in one.
I agree that there won’t be any will to use the full might of our military in a civil war, and add that the immediate economic collapse resulting from any civil war will also collapse the military in all aspects within a month or two.
Agreed… but you forgot the punchline… then the foreign troops arrive.
Other than the part about the (hoaxed) nuke weapons, this scene is as relevant today as it was in 1984.
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I’m over 1000 miles from either coast, there won’t be any foreign troops here. Foreign soldiers would be the one thing that could unite opposition and it would be bigger than Yugoslavia, the Spanish Civil War, Vietnam and Rwanda all combined.
Things might be different at coastal port cities with geographic value, especially ones with large ethnic foreign populations. Here’s looking at you Seattle and SF Bay.
Past 100 miles inland, it’s more an issue of true civil war and lack of a functioning economy.
The wild card is whether any of the inland deplorables get their hands on USA nuclear weapons and are able to set them off or make a plausible threat of doing so. That is beyond my knowledge.
Finally, a little reality to discuss.
What has kept a faltering economy afloat these past 10-12 years?
Why would Trump wrap himself in the mantle of a trumped up economy that he must know is on life support?
I don’t have answers, but I can connect the dots.
Yes, we are headed into a controlled demolition, the only question is: will it be so controlled that the chains will be upon us, before we have time to react?
Expect communications to go first with a massive silencing of the real news and while we are trying to figure out what’s happening, the dollar becomes worthless and the government steps in to restore order. Before we can say wait, what? The government begins its first emergency voluntary confiscation of fire sticks, where most of the armchair militant patriots will quickly cave and surrender.
The seasoned warriors will not submit, but with 80 or 90% of the gun owners joining the ranks of the unarmed, more resources will be made available to focus on the rapidly declining group of armed deplorables.
The fighting will be fierce and over quickly, with stiff penalties, like becoming room temperature, for any who would support the armed old timers.
Game over.
Maybe my dystopian view will help some to stand their ground and not cave so quickly when the government come knocking, as this may be the only hope we have to resist the coming “hope and change” we all knew was just around the corner.
Actually some good tactical advice in this: “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Hammer, it’s a bit different this time with tech advances and all.
Who would down vote such a practical warning?
Fear is something that never seems to get factored into SHTF scenarios.
At the first indication of aggression, many will look for a leader and with comms down, they will need to act alone.
When threatened with a mandatory forced exodus to “camp Hillary,”the urge to stand and fight will be high, but if the promise of you can stay in your homes and we won’t bother you anymore (insert laugh track here), there are many whom I believe will sacrifice personal protection for a few days of peace, will be a temptation few would pass up.
Being perceived as alone without a network like TBP, WRSA, or whatever news source you turn to being silenced, things escalating faster than they can be absorbed and the overwhelming odds of “them” against you will I think, be too much for many to have the presence of mind to remember Solzhenitsyn’s memorable words.
Agreed.
After 2 days of no internet and no utilities, I go out back and re-zero.
3 days, I’m on neighborhood patrol.
4 days, me and about 10,000 men with rifles show up at the state capital building and federal building politely asking “what the fuck?”
5 days, it’s me and 20,000 men no longer asking questions
This goes hand-in-hand with a total economic and monetary reset — i.e., the dollar is replaced by a new currency (most likely crypto). Which is why I disagree with Uncola that “the economy will be in shambles before November 2020”. I think that, if it’s possible, TPTRB* will keep the bubble from popping until
Trump is re-elected. After that, it’s anyones guess as to timing of the bubble bursting. But total economic collapse and reset won’t really occur until after a period of a few years of recession/depression and the beginning of hyper-inflation. Plus, I don’t think the crypto replacement is quite ready yet.
*TPTRB = The Powers That REALLY Be. The men behind the curtain. Nothing lends itself more to a global conspiracy theory than what I’m suggesting here. Namely, things which are almost certain to NOT occur without the concerted control & influence of several powerful actors aligned with a single goal in mind. If what I suggest happens, it should be enough to convince even sheep that the conspiracy is no theory … but, since there will never likely be some paper trail to provide documentary “proof”, it will forever remain as TPTRB want it — a laughable “conspiracy theory”.
Still, the writing’s already on the wall for anyone to read. The only thing I’d say about Brandon Smith’s “epiphany” is that, if this has just now occurred to him … he’s 5 to 10 years slow on the uptake.
Oops. The word “after” was supposed to be italicized, not blockquoted.
Heil Pochaontas?
Bellamy Salute!
Ai am glad I’m old and sorry I have grandchildren.
that is the funniest thing I have ever read!
All of us have ancestors who lived through shit we can’t imagine, yet here we are today. Shame on you for thinking your grandkids and mine can’t survive like our forebears and take it to the motherfuckers big time if and when needed. Make sure there is a weapon available for each grandkid. Make it so your family is a militia unto itself. Mine is!
The biggest problem of all is the national debt. The more we increase spending and add to the debt, the worse things will be when things head south. I tend to agree with your overall assessment, but the biggest problem is the increasing debt we are accruing. It guarantees a major depression, not just here in the US, but around the world as well.
National debt was big problem prior to 2000, when there was at least some fanciful scenario in which it might be paid off. That chance is long past. Debt is no problem right now, just as it wouldn’t matter if your own personal debt is $1 trillion or $1 quadrillion. It’s all a joke.
The problems are currency collapse, economic collapse, and lack of any social order.
I think you’re almost right, but have things a little out of order.
First comes the depression (started by a market crash, popping of the “Everything Bubble”).
Only then does the debt become an issue; or, rather, the interest on the debt. If the interest rate is greater than the rate of GDP growth, the interest on the national debt eats into GDP at an exponentially increasing pace.
The Fed is then put in a final no-win situation. Either they 1) go increasingly negative (i.e. confiscate wealth), or 2) leave rates above GDP growth (which will be negative itself) causing hyper-inflation.
Either way, the dollar becomes wortheless and the economy collapses. And by collapse, I mean collapse … completely and utterly. This leaves no alternative* but for the government to create (out of thin air) an entirely new economic and monetary system completely within its control and with the “value” of everything (read: EVERY-FUCKING-THING) arbitrarily assigned by government fiat. That is, the complete confiscation and re-valuing of all wealth in the country (while maintaining — for the stupid — the illusion that private property still exists).
And … voila! … overnight totalitarian communism! And one that will be almost unanimously approved of and sanctioned by “The People”.
*(It is at this point that an already proposed “solution” of unifying with Canada, Mexico, and the EU will be further pushed and will, ultimately, gain the approval of “The People”. The idea being that the economy is/was global, and so the debt is/was global, and to not unify would create a “free-rider” problem for any nations that were able to make good on their debt. That is, collectivize the debt and extract payment via taxation under a new, larger, collective government — this is how and why the centralized U.S. government was created. History rhymes.)
Wow, A lot of good comments on this “Brandon” article. I have been reading his weekly screeds since the bankster crash of 2008. You could replace the subject “Trump” with “Obama” and his articles read the same during this entire period, all doom and gloom and one world govt. conspiracy to overthrow US.
Here is what is missing in all his arguments:
the world we live in is based on oil/nat gas extracted at reasonable profit, and the US controls the transit of this life giving product around the world. China relies on tankers to get the majority of it’s energy needs from the ME. If this dynamic changes, then maybe we can discuss some scenarios of “controlled demolition, blah, blah, communists, etc.
Even if a country like Iran, could somehow build a pipeline to subvert this plan, that pipeline would be destroyed by our ever present “terrorists” on the ground.
Get with the plan here,
do you seriously think we will give away our top place in the pecking order, after establishing a world wide banking system and forcing everyone to use it?
Do you think we will go away quietly in the night?
If you disagree with this, then please, go buy a bunch of solar panels, and try to smelt some aluminum, and also create the silicon wafers, and the glass, to make more panels, in your eco self sustaining fantasy, and also, please tell us how you did it, as you will be the smartest and richest person on the planet.
“the world we live in is based on oil/nat gas extracted at reasonable profit”.
Correct as far as it goes, it just doesn’t go far enough. The US is entirely dependent upon the most complex communication device ever made, which is in turn dependent upon uninterrupted electrical power, which is in turn dependent upon timely delivery of energy supplies, which is dependent upon a functioning financial system, usable transportation, adequate food supplies, etc. We’ve moved too far into technological dependencies to be able to weather a significant disruption.
I agree, but really I upvoted for your username.
Are you related to the previous Headless Horseman poster? I like the flipped version better anyway, it’s more in TBP character.
“do you seriously think we will give away our top place in the pecking order, after establishing a world wide banking system and forcing everyone to use it?”
Given that I’m watching it unfold right before my eyes exactly like that, yes I do.
As far as tankers, for the time being the USA could easily, EASILY stop all oil tankers from reaching China. For that matter such massive blue-water navies as those of Sweden, Argentina, and India (least efficient of all known governments) could likely do the same, albeit not for as many weeks.
Name a country that can survive without any international trade. Even NK can’t do that today. What do you think happens to US-intl trade if we torpedo some tankers to “get” China? Do you know the most famous line from WOPR in the film Wargames?
Our overlords are not entirely stupid and seem to be trying really hard to provoke a war with some mix of Russia, China and Iran, WITH some degree of plausible deniability (plausible only to idiots) to enable our economic allies to join us in that war. It would be brutal but if we knock out China hard, the US might retain its top spot for a few more decades.
I am not making any moral argument for this, only a strategic one. Morally it’s up there with armed robbery + felony murder.
The main reason we aren’t already there is twofold:
1) Trump won 2016; Killary would already have gotten us all killed.
2) Putin is a very clever statesman and exceptionally good at avoiding intentional traps.
The USA is quite rotten at this point, but all I read suggests China is as well. It’s something of a race of leper-cripples to see which one makes a big dumb move first, as that one will likely ultimately fall.
“If the economic crash continues on its current pace”
Dude… what economic crash? Some indicators have flipped negative but this is nothing like 2007. 2006 maybe, maybe even early 2007, but at this rate its not gonna hit until after the election, and given how trigger happy central banks are, it is not likely to happen at all. They are very likely to print $4 trillion over the next 6 months. How the hell do you get a recession from that?
Only after the bubble pops.
The more they print, the bigger the bubble grows.
The bigger the bubble, the more damage when it pops.
So, when does it pop?
When they stick a pin in it, of course.
That is, when they wish it to pop, and not before.
Red Team! Blue Team! Rah! Rah! Rah!
As long as antifa is your target, you will remain victim of the manipulations of those who created antifa to be your target.
Q: How do we keep the people at large from catching on to what we’re doing and uniting to overthrow us?
A: Divide and Conquer. Make the Left (antifa) the enemy of the Right, and the Right the enemy of the Left; and they’ll be so busy fighting each other, that we’ll be left to our plans to conquer and control all of them.
The woman is scrunched up in one half of the box, with fake legs (or another woman’s legs) sticking out of the other half of the box.
It’s one thing to get played. It’s another when you get played even though you ought to know you’re being played.
Ahhh… the internet… so full of dreck, then something comes along to twingle a neuron… like this article… the only part I disagree with that causes the article to lose verisimilitude is the ‘disarming the populace’ part. That was glossed over with a heavy handed spatula. Disarming the American people will be a bloody and lengthy process if it is attempted. That it will be I don’t doubt, but not just a ‘slip in there and grab them’ kind of thing.
Trump’s abject failure to secure the US southern border will alone guarantee enough conservative vote peel off from the 2016 totals to assure his defeat in 2020. An engineered economic calamity is not even necessary to elect the Democrat party nominee.